Racial Stereotyping in the Media

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 19, 2017

Travis Dixon, media effects scholar and University of Illinois communications professor, and Rashid Shabazz, Color of Change chief marketing and storytelling officer, discuss the new study, conducted by Dixon and commissioned by the groups Color of Change and Family Story, that found news reports offered distorted views of black families in their coverage.

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